Last year saw a recorded 445 ransomware attacks on hospitals, clinics, and other direct care providers. An additional 191 attacks hit businesses operating within the healthcare sector. When comparing these figures from 2025 to those noted in 2024, attacks on healthcare providers remained about the same, while attacks on healthcare businesses increased by 25 percent.
Interestingly, the average ransomware demand decreased significantly in 2025 for both healthcare providers (down 84%) and healthcare businesses (down 92%).
Rebecca Moody, Head of Data Research at Comparitech, provided the following comment on the overall findings:
“The fact that attacks on healthcare providers appeared to plateau last year while attacks increased overall is positive, but now is not the time to get complacent or take this for granted. As our recent report highlights, healthcare providers are still a dominant focus for hackers because of the amount of disruption these attacks can cause and the amount of sensitive data they have on file. Healthcare providers are also facing increasing pressure via attacks on third parties. Whether it’s the medical billing service they use or their IT provider, healthcare organizations’ systems are only as robust as the third parties they’re using.
2025’s statistics also demonstrate the increased speed and volume of attacks from ransomware groups. As they turn to the likes of AI and Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) to scale up their operations, gangs are constantly evolving to ensure they’re maximizing their output. This perhaps goes some way to explaining why we’ve seen such a reduction in the average ransom amount, too. Larger volumes = lower ransoms. Equally, by issuing these lower demands, hackers are likely increasing their chances of securing a ransom payment.”
You can read more here: https://www.comparitech.com/news/healthcare-ransomware-roundup-2025-stats-on-attacks-ransoms-and-data-breaches/
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Healthcare Ransomware: 2025 stats on attacks, ransoms, and data breaches
Last year saw a recorded 445 ransomware attacks on hospitals, clinics, and other direct care providers. An additional 191 attacks hit businesses operating within the healthcare sector. When comparing these figures from 2025 to those noted in 2024, attacks on healthcare providers remained about the same, while attacks on healthcare businesses increased by 25 percent.
Interestingly, the average ransomware demand decreased significantly in 2025 for both healthcare providers (down 84%) and healthcare businesses (down 92%).
Rebecca Moody, Head of Data Research at Comparitech, provided the following comment on the overall findings:
“The fact that attacks on healthcare providers appeared to plateau last year while attacks increased overall is positive, but now is not the time to get complacent or take this for granted. As our recent report highlights, healthcare providers are still a dominant focus for hackers because of the amount of disruption these attacks can cause and the amount of sensitive data they have on file. Healthcare providers are also facing increasing pressure via attacks on third parties. Whether it’s the medical billing service they use or their IT provider, healthcare organizations’ systems are only as robust as the third parties they’re using.
2025’s statistics also demonstrate the increased speed and volume of attacks from ransomware groups. As they turn to the likes of AI and Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) to scale up their operations, gangs are constantly evolving to ensure they’re maximizing their output. This perhaps goes some way to explaining why we’ve seen such a reduction in the average ransom amount, too. Larger volumes = lower ransoms. Equally, by issuing these lower demands, hackers are likely increasing their chances of securing a ransom payment.”
You can read more here: https://www.comparitech.com/news/healthcare-ransomware-roundup-2025-stats-on-attacks-ransoms-and-data-breaches/
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